Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:43:26 +0530 | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Subject | Re: Patch "i386: Relocatable kernel support" causes instant reboot |
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:13:54PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:38:14 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:32:33AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > Grr. I guessed the problem was to late in the game it seems the problem > > > is in setup.S Before we switch to 32bit mode. > > > > > > Ok. There is almost enough for inference but here is a patch of stops > > > for setup.S let's see if one of those will stop the reboots. > > > > > > I have a strong feeling that we are going to find a tool chain issue, > > > but I'd like to find where we ware having problems before we declare > > > that to be the case. > > > > Looks like it might be a tool chain issue. I took Jean's config file and > > built my own kernel and I am able to boot the kernel. But I can't boot > > his bzImage. I observed the same behaviour as jean is experiencing. It jumps > > back to BIOS. > > I can only confirm that. I installed a more recent system on the same > hardware, rebuilt a kernel from the same config file, and now it boots > OK. So it's not related to the hardware. It has to be a compilation-time > issue. >
Hi Jean,
Looks like you have already trashed your setup. If not, is it possible to upload the output of "objdump -D arch/i386/boot/setup.o"? This will give some info regarding what assembler is doing.
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